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Full Play Analysis. Bertolt Brecht’s modernist play, Mother Courage and Her Children, defies certain expectations of drama, focusing less on action and events than on delivering its messages about war, human conflict, and human nature. The play comprises what might be considered a set of allegorical tales lifted over a thirty-year span ...
Mother Courage and Her Children. Mother Courage and Her Children ( German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin. [1] Four theatrical productions were produced in Switzerland and Germany from 1941 to 1952, the ...
- Bertolt Brecht
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From Stage to Film. In 1961, to honor Brecht’s life and legacy, East Germany commissioned the directors of Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble to film their performance of Mother Courage and Her Children. Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel starred as Mother Courage in this movie version of the play. The best study guide to Mother Courage and Her ...
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Jan 16, 2012 · Mother Courage and her children ... Mother Courage and her children by Bertolt Brecht. Publication date 1966 ... Full catalog record
Mother Courage and Her Children, play by Bertolt Brecht, written in German as Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder: Eine Chronik aus dem Dreissigjährigen Krieg, produced in 1941 and published in 1949. The work, composed of 12 scenes, is a chronicle play of the Thirty Years’ War and is based on the picaresque novel Simplicissimus (1669) by Hans ...
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Oct 22, 2012 · Mother Courage and her children; a chronicle of the Thirty Years War ... Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Publication date 1962 Topics ... Full catalog record MARCXML.
Mother Courage and Her Children explores the horror and futility of war by following Mother Courage on a 12-year odyssey around Europe during the famously brutal Thirty Years’ War of 1618–1648. Stoic, savvy, and enterprising, Mother Courage hopes to make a fortune by following the Swedish army in her wagon, selling food, liquor, and supplies.
